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Some headlines that highlight what is occuring in America right now - along with commentary from a few of my favorite political experts.

Obama to propose strict new regulation of financial industry

President Obama is expected to unveil a plan that would give the government new powers to seize key companies whose failure jeopardizes the financial system. The plan would give the government new powers to seize key companies whose failure jeopardizes the financial system, as well as creation of a watchdog agency to look out for consumers' interests.
 

ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE
 
California Democrats Seek Tax Boost as Battle Looms
 
With about one in seven California state workers earning more than $100,000 last year in base pay, overtime and bonuses, see which departments are paying employees the most.
 
Frank Gaffney's Free Speech, But Not For Me?

Victor Davis Hanson:
Obama has a long list of historically incorrect statements. "Our Historically Challenged President" 6/15/09
 
Hell No, We Won't Go
Is Barack Obama about to face his own version of Viet Nam? More
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We Need A New Milton Friedman

In recent months, nasty bumper stickers are popping up that say "Milton Friedman: Proud Father of Global Misery." Liberals demonize Friedman because his policies and sound economics are right and true - but libs don't like the hard work and discipline it takes. So now they demonize him in order to make their mesiah look as if he knows what he is doing.
The spoiled, self-absorbed lefties can continue to try to "level the playing field," however according to Christopher Chantrill at American Thinker, "our liberal friends are shortly going to experience a very nasty rendez-vous with reality.  As usual with our liberal friends, they will insist that we experience it with them.
It's a real shame that we are going to have to go through the 1970s all over again.  And it's a shame that the people who will suffer most will be the kids who voted for Obama.  Well, maybe not.  Maybe the sooner they get a reality check the better."
 
It will be the 1970's all over again. And as I state, Chantrill says we need another Milton Friendman again, very badly.
 
Chantrill continues: "Everyone understands that capitalism is the only thing that works.  But our liberal friends just don't care. 

They had a chance to incorporate his ideas into their policy, and the Clinton administration did, in a half-hearted way, for a while.  But who wants to wind down welfare?  Who wants to forswear gorgeous mega-projects to save the planet with renewable green energy?  Who wants to give up "free" health care?  Who wants to give up sexy high-speed rail-you know, just like they have in Europe?  What would be the point of political power without all that?
 
 Today we need a pitcher that can throw even better stuff than Milton Friedman.  Most likely, he -- or she -- is already warming up in the bullpen.  That's the whole idea behind American Exceptionalism.  When we Americans need a new pitcher to get us out of a jam, there always seems to be one on the bench, name of Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Friedman, or Reagan or something like that.
We'll know if this pitcher is the real thing because of the Bronx cheers coming out of the expensive liberal box seats.  Here's the kind of no-nonsense pitching that I'll be looking for:

  • Enough already with trying to beat the business cycle. The government has been promising to do this for about a century and it has failed. Get it out of here!
  • Enough already with getting other people to pay for your health care. It is cruel, wasteful, and unjust.
  • Enough already with sending little Johnny off for a mandatory twelve year sentence at the state educational penitentiary. Hey, at least your average violent offender at the regular pen gets a trial of his peers and time off for good behavior.
If the new conservative pitcher has the stuff to "slice and dice" the liberal sophistry that would truculently come up to bat against this modest program, here is what I would say.

It's a start.
Obama is destroying the American economy. It appears to be his goal. However, he is not a true American if he thinks we can't overcome his sloppy policies and get rid of him by 2012. Even a sh*t-storm has to end sometime.

Christopher Chantrill is a frequent contributor to American Thinker. See his roadtothemiddleclass.com and usgovernmentspending.com.  His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.
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Pravda Calls U.S. "Communists"

Pravda not only called America "Marxist" and "Communist," they wrote that the election of Obama is the final collapse of America.
 
In American capitalism gone with a whimper, Pravda writes, "First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics."
 
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
 
Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.
 
Conservative voters already know this. Yet the madness is all around us. The Land of the free and home of the brave is on the verge of something truly dangerous. Who is this man that America so willingly elected to the highest office in the country, and why is he killing our country?

Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies.

 
 
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